One of life’s simple joys is playing with the boys.
It didn’t really serve any true function in the plot.
“It’s an action movie,” he tells EW.
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“And I wasn’t sure the whole beefcake thing was going to make sense, but it did.
Tom knows what people like.”
Of course, when it came time to make a sequel toTop Gun,many questions came to mind.
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Who would be Mav’s new wingman?
Would “Danger Zone” or any of the other perfect needle drops recur on the soundtrack?
But most importantly, how would they top the volleyball scene?
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Male beauty standards have changed immensely since the 1980s.
On game day, there was resistance bands and weights on the beach.
It was so funny."
“There was a lot of pressure,” he adds.
“On the original, they didn’t know what that scene was going to be.
On this one, there were a lot of eyeballs on that scene.
So you had a lot of actor anxiety leading up to that day.”
“Everybody went into hyper-mode.
Cause he’s right.”
The hair and make-up departments knew all too well what audiences would expect here and ratcheted up the glisten.
“We almost made shirts that said,Top Gun: Maverick: More Sweat,” quipped Barbaro.
Of course, no one anticipated the extra challenge of all that manufactured sweat.
“The hair and makeup people are putting on all this body stuff to make us look all sweaty.
We love a good thirst trap, but a thirst trap motivated by the plot?
Now,thatis sexy.
Additional reporting by Clark Collis.
